Planetario de Montevideo
The Planetario de Montevideo (or Montevideo Planetarium; also known as the Surveyor Germán Barbato Municipal Planetarium), is a planetarium in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Inaugurated on 11 February 1955,[1] it was the first planetarium in Latin America[2] and all of the southern hemisphere.[citation needed] It has a 18.3 m diameter dome and seats 157 people.[3]
Historically, it used a Spitz Model B projector, which in 2016 was the oldest such projector still in working order.[4] The planetarium was renovated in 2017–19, when the Spitz projector was replaced by a digital system; it reopened in December 2019.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Un poco de historia", Planetario (in Spanish), archived from the original on 17 December 2010, retrieved 22 December 2020
- ^ Timeline of planetarium history, International Planetarium Society, retrieved 22 December 2020
- ^ a b Planetario de Montevideo Agrimensor German Barbato, World Planetariums Database, retrieved 22 December 2020
- ^ Uruguay has world's oldest planetarium, EFE, 8 May 2016, retrieved 22 December 2020